Thread: Text to speech annoyance

Perhaps someone knows how to stop this. Every time I open a spreadsheet (new or existing) and type in a cell, a window pops up that says:

Text to speech
This feature is not available. To make this feature available, please run Setup again, select "Add or Remove Features" and change the feature to "Run from My Computer" or "Run from CD/network."

I don't want text to speech. I just want this block to stop popping up. I don't have the Office CD as it was installed from our network (multi-user license - we never actually had the CD at this location).

Is there a way to do this?

If you open the VBEditor (Alt+f11) then the Immediate Window (Ctrl+G) and enter this code, then press Enter:

application.Speech.SpeakCellOnEnter = false

what happens? Error?

Interesting: what if you type:

msgbox application.Speech.SpeakCellOnEnter

does it say True or False?

Sounds like a registry problem then. If you have access rights to change it, you can open the registry editor (Start-Run, then type 'regedit' without the quotes and press Enter.) navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel\Options
and look for an entry in the right hand pane called SpeakOnEnter. Either delete it or set it to 0.

Glad to help.

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